Siemens Xcelerator: Festo joins the Siemens Industrial Edge Ecosystem

Breakthrough for digital solutions in manufacturing

“We’re pleased to offer our Festo AX Industrial apps on the Siemens Industrial Edge platform as part of our partnership,” says Dr. Oliver Niese, who heads Digital Business at Festo. “This gives Festo an additional sales channel for industrial customers in the areas of mechanical engineering and production. Users benefit from the opportunity to purchase apps from different providers in a single place, to install them and run them at the machines on the shop floor.” Another customer benefit is the wide range of software components that can be integrated into production in a standardized way. IoT solutions can even be scaled across lines and factories, thus considerably reducing manual software maintenance. “At Siemens, we want to add even more partners to the Industrial Edge Ecosystem, especially those in the field of automation,” says Rainer Brehm, CEO of Factory Automation at Siemens. “A larger selection increases flexibility for our customers, who can build individual IoT solutions from Siemens and partner modules (Industrial Edge apps and devices). We create the greatest value for our customers when we work together across company boundaries.”